Bill Text: TX HB2897 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the mental health first aid program training and reporting.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Public Health [HB2897 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2897-Introduced.html

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85R13002 SMT-D
By: Price H.B. No. 2897

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the mental health first aid program training and
reporting.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1001.205. REPORTS. (a) Not later than September 30
of each year, a local mental health authority shall provide to the
department the number of:
(1) employees and contractors of the authority who
were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section
1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year, the number of trainers
who left the program for any reason during the preceding fiscal
year, and the number of active trainers;
(2) educators, school district employees other than
educators, and school resource officers who completed a mental
health first aid training program offered by the authority under
Section 1001.203 during the preceding fiscal year categorized by
local mental health authority region, school district, and category
of personnel; and
(3) individuals who are not school district employees
or school resource officers who completed a mental health first aid
training program offered by the authority during the preceding
fiscal year.
(b) Not later than December 1 of each year, the department
shall compile the information submitted by local mental health
authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a report to the
legislature containing [the number of]:
(1) the number of authority employees and contractors
trained as mental health first aid trainers during the preceding
fiscal year, the number of trainers who left the program for any
reason during the preceding fiscal year, and the number of active
trainers;
(2) the number of educators, school district employees
other than educators, and school resource officers who completed a
mental health first aid training program provided by an authority
during the preceding fiscal year categorized by local mental health
authority region, school district, and category of personnel; [and]
(3) the number of individuals who are not school
district employees or school resource officers who completed a
mental health first aid training program provided by an authority
during the preceding fiscal year; and
(4) a detailed accounting of expenditures of money
appropriated for the purpose of implementing this subchapter.
SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.207 to read as follows:
Sec. 1001.207. PROGRAM PROMOTION. (a) The commission shall
make available on its official Internet website information about
the Mental Health First Aid Training Program for the purpose of
promoting public awareness of the program. An electronic link to an
outside source of information is not sufficient.
(b) The Texas Education Agency shall make available on its
official Internet website information about the Mental Health First
Aid Training Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness
of the program. An electronic link to an outside source of
information is not sufficient.
SECTION 3. (a) Section 1001.205(a), Health and Safety Code,
as amended by this Act, applies only to a report due under that
section after September 30, 2017. A report due under that section
before that date is governed by the law in effect immediately before
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
(b) Section 1001.205(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to a report due under that section after
December 1, 2017. A report due under that section before that date
is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 4. Not later than December 1, 2017, the Health and
Human Services Commission and the Texas Education Agency shall
update their Internet websites to include the information required
by Section 1001.207, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.